The more you pay for it, the more exciting and complete your life becomes it seems. This is the sad state of perceived quality today. Diminishing returns is a completely lost notion.

This is how Apple turned around its declining notebook sales. Just had to create a more 'premium' lineup. If you build it, they will pay...

3 years ago, I bought 3 Lenovo W700s for $5,200 *each*.

Sometimes, people do pay top dollar for high quality stuff. There is a difference between a machine capable of display 2880 x 1800 and performing fine, with a speedy 768GB SSD (which you can't even find on the market), and a $300 walmart special. If you can't tell the difference, then it might be painful to try to educate you.

There is a difference between a machine capable of display 2880 x 1800 and performing fine, with a speedy 768GB SSD (which you can't even find on the market), and a $300 walmart special. If you can't tell the difference, then it might be painful to try to educate you.

OK, I'll bite. Help me find another brand of laptop that has the following specs or better:

o cpu of 2.6Ghz or better
o 8GB Ram or more
o able to handle up to 768GB SSD internally
o able to display 2880 x 1800 on a 15" screen
o less than 4.5 lbs
o at least 2 thunderbolt or other 10 gigabit connections

Been using PC from day one. Had many laptops: first one was SD $300 one Gateway, a few HP ones, then dell xps for 1080 screen, which never look back for lower resolution. Even dell xps as a SD $600 fully loaded 2011 model.

Now I want better design, lighter and thinner with high resolution. I was excited with the new Dell 2012 model: great design ( look like MBP), thinner, lighter but more expensive. I am willing to pay more for design. After checking dell xps 15 out at the mall, I went home disappointed thinking no laptop this year. Dell got beautiful aluminum top and sides but palm rest is rubber and it is stratchable by finger.

I then went to apple store and here I am looking for MBP after reading Annandtech review. Now I can understand why some people can spend that much on a Apple laptop. Now I am willing to pay for good design/quality laptop, an idea that I thought was crazy not long ago.

Sometimes, people do pay top dollar for high quality stuff. There is a difference between a machine capable of display 2880 x 1800 and performing fine, with a speedy 768GB SSD (which you can't even find on the market), and a $300 walmart special. If you can't tell the difference, then it might be painful to try to educate you.

Sure there is a difference except those differences would matter greatly in business and/or other uses where the premium makes sense. Not in the general consumer space which is where a lot of Apple's sales come from. Ummm, so why did you buy three W700s for $5,200 *each* exactly? I Imagine you had good reason but is everyone you?

My education is fine but perhaps your argument could use a little more depth and context. Or we can pretend that everyone buying $2500-$3000 Apple notebooks really needs $2500-3000 priced notebooks and it has nothing at all to do with hype and Apple branding if that makes you feel better.

What's always funny is to hear all the people who buy an expensive product that in the end gave them little practical real world gain from the previous one, but they have to tell themselves and everyone how awesome it is in order to justify the price they paid for it. Now imagine a whole sea of these people telling each other how awesome it is and so and so on. Cha ching go the registers. You see this in the audiophile market especially. I bought a $2,000 DAC, I can hear the difference, I swear! The music is so much better!

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There is no equivalent laptop, cheaper or more expensive, than the 15" Retina Macbook Pro. You have no justification for saying anyone is overpaying when there is no alternative if you're looking for a 2880x1800 display.

What's always funny is to hear all the people who buy an expensive product that in the end gave them little practical real world gain from the previous one, but they have to tell themselves and everyone how awesome it is in order to justify the price they paid for it. Now imagine a whole sea of these people telling each other how awesome it is and so and so on. Cha ching go the registers. You see this in the audiophile market especially. I bought a $2,000 DAC, I can hear the difference, I swear! The music is so much better!

You know, I drive a 12 year old car. And if I buy another car, it'd be a second hand car. But I'd never bitch at people who buy a Camaro, BMW or Lexus since it's their money and their business how they want to spend it.

And if someone comes onto slickdeals and tells us how to get 15% off the price of one of those cars, I wouldn't be telling them how little real world gain they get and how they're just paying for marketing, and how most people would never get the benefits of driving at 200mph since the speed limit is 75mph.

You know, I drive a 12 year old car. And if I buy another car, it'd be a second hand car. But I'd never bitch at people who buy a Camaro, BMW or Lexus since it's their money and their business how they want to spend it.

And if someone comes onto slickdeals and tells us how to get 15% off the price of one of those cars, I wouldn't be telling them how little real world gain they get and how they're just paying for marketing, and how most people would never get the benefits of driving at 200mph since the speed limit is 75mph.

Well for one thing, a deal is a deal. I agree with most people here in SD that this is a pretty damn good deal. However, if a person already has a functioning laptop to do their everyday tasks, what is the point in spending this much for a laptop besides the "extremely" high specs that some people mention?

You'd probably be saying the same for a car. Why pay $80k for a car when you can get something cheaper at less than $10k, right? And take you from point A to point B?

Some people may have the "luxury" to frivolously spend their money for a higher tier product; however, I don't agree on some people who say that those who complain about this product are poor because we're not poor. We just have a practical way of thinking of spending our money in life.

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